He threw loads of tea off the British ship and they called it the Boston Tea Party
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Samuel Adams was also one of the Sons of Liberty.
He helped draft the Articles of Confederation.
He helped guide congress towards issung the Declaration of Independence.
Samuel Adams was John Adams second cousin.
Accounts written in the 19 century praised him as someone who had been steering fellow colonists torwards Independence long before the break-out of the Revolutionary War.